On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Garf DeLong wrote:

> For some reason I can not get XMMS to work.  I have system sounds, can play 
> .wavs in Noatun, but XMMS will not play anything (mp3, location, ect).  Any 
> ideas ?
> 
> It was working fine till upgrading from 7.3 to 8.0.  I even unloaded XMMS and 
> reinstalled both from package and from source with no luck.
> 

Red Hat removed the mp3 stuff because they were worried about the legality 
of distributing it.   You can yourself re-install mp3 capabilities by 
following the instructions here:

http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html

Of course, now is the time to convert all those pesky proprietary 
formatted mp3s to the superior format of Ogg Vorbis so that you never have 
to worry about the availability of proprietary codecs again:

http://www.xiph.org/


Oisin Feeley




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